November 2016

September 02, 2016

Welcome back! Today marks the last day of blogging about how you can use your stamp set from Kellie Stamps. I hope that you have enjoyed all the tips and tricks as much as I have and that you don´t forget to enter the giveaway from yesterday! Today I wanted to share a few non-birthday related projects from me and the some of the other DT members from Kellie Stamps. Enjoy!

The challenge is using theme products for projects that don't match that theme. I picked my photos for the week, and chose one digital stamp for each photo that I could use as a jumping off point for the journaling. I lowered the opacity so I could see a bit of the photo through the words, and placed them in the center of each photo. I made simple black and white 3x4 cards to match, and added simple little chipboard pieces to each photo.

"It's easy to use 'themed' digital stamps on a regular week of Project Life! With just a small amount of modification and a few embellishments, I used a birthday-themed set from Kellie Stamps on a pretty ordinary week. Sometimes those ordinary moments deserve just as much celebration as the big events!"

Diane also share process videos on her Youtube channel. Here is the link to the video for this page!

Highlighting some of our summer favorites in this Project Life app layout. All of these photos are also in my Little Summer JOY album, but I wanted to bring them into our family Photobook as well because, truly, they're some of our biggest highlights from the summer. Our favorite spots, favorite moments, favorite things.

I made this simple pocket page that will go into my regular scrapbooking album. I really think that the sentiment of "celebrate" can be used in so many ways, don´t you?

What did I tell you? I think I can use this stamp set over and over again without getting tired of it!

August 31, 2016

For my home, I like to add simple designs that I can make myself. And it doesn´t get any easier than with a digital stamp! For this poster I simply opened a WORD document on my computer and added the "it´s your day" stamp from the set to the document and centered it. For a little more interest I added a border around the actual image (also in WORD) before printing it. I printed on A4 paper, but I am going to also be printing this on a larger paper size later. Here I have just added some washi tape to attach the poster to my wall. Doesn´t it look fresh and fun?!

Here I have added the same poster into a simple easy frame and put it in two different places in my home just to show you how nice it looks in a frame too!

Besides using digital stamps as photo overlays or bases for journal/filler cards, there are bound-less ways to use these modern, amazing tools for memory keeping. I also created this 'Celebrate' banner. After downloading the whole word, I split each letter into its own file so it would be easier to maneuver them in my online Cricut software. Enlarging each to about 6 inches tall, I electronically cut each letter in pink and also it's shadow in a darker shade to add depth. Attaching to a white square of cardstock, the short pentagons on bottom part of the flag in stripes and dot grid gold, add just the right amount of accent to this all purpose banner. From birthday parties to everyday instances we commemorate, it's a welcome addition to our house party decorations!

I have one more quick and easy project to share. These cute flags are so cute to add to a bouquet of flowers as a hostess gift or to a houseplant too.

I just printed a few of the sentiments aligned to the left to have room to fold them in half. Then cut them in strips and cut the little banner edge, folded them in half and with double sided tape I attached them to a grill stick.

August 30, 2016

Welcome back! Today I am sharing a few ways you can use the stamp set Eat more cake from Kellie stamps to make cards, layouts and party decor for birthdays. Let´s go!

These first projects are made by myself. I´ve made a wrapping paper by using a WORD document, setting the paper to horizontal and then adding in the two digital stamps happy and birthday as you can see. For a little bit more interest I chose to make the middle row a bit bigger and use a bright pink. You can easily change the color of the stamps in a digital editing program such as Photoshop. I have used the free website picmonkey.com for that.

I also used Picmonkey for the card shown here. I started out with a 4x6" canvas and added the stamps at the top there several times and changing the color/opacity level on a few to create the faded stamp effect. The cake stamp is an older one from Kellie stamps that is not longer available, but you could add any birthday related stamp or embellishment really.

Here are two fun cards made by the owner her self, Kellie. Here is what she says:

Over the other weekend Diane was sharing her watercolour cards she'd made. It got a lot of us inspired to start creating and so I grabbed out my forgotten watercolour paint set and tried a few things that weren't working. But then I remembered watching a youtube clip from Amy Tan, here. After that is all just came together and I love it.

My intention was to make it look like a lightbox. It took way longer than I thought (silhouette dramas) but I am really happy with how it turned out. I have made the messages on acetate that can be removed to give it more of an authentic look.

Diane is the one who made all the fabulous brush script in this stamp set!

I created this layout to celebrate my 35th birthday and there is no better way to make a layout special than with a WHOLE LOT of stamping in my favourite colour: rainbow! I threw some stitching in there as well and I have a very special layout for my special day!

My fellow swedish DT member Magdalena made this fun and different birthday layout.

My daughter turned seven in August so this stamp set for perfect to use for my traditional birthday interview project. I also wrote a bit about her day.

To create these coordinating birthday pieces, simply grab some digital stamps and create your sentiment, then attach them to coordinating cardstock or card base and you're ready to roll. I chose the traditional 'Happy Birthday' but there are loads of things you could say!

Make sure the two words are fully attached to each other for easy trimming and then accentuate the black and white words with a pop of color–or confetti like I've done with this card!

August 03, 2016

Happy day! I hope that yesterday's clip art didn't shock you too much and that you were able to make it back today. :) hehehehe. I spent an evening in the urgent care with my littlest (she's fine) and so didn't have quite the time that I thought I would to methodically build a page for you today. So I am making good on my threat/promise to use one of you as inspiration!

I started at the top of the comments from Monday and ended up on Ingunn's blog. She is an amazing scrapbooker who lives in the Northwest mountains and spends lots of time climbing. (If you don't yet follow her on Instagram, you might want to. She has a yummy yummy little who hikes. How cute is that?? Her photos will inspire you to go outside and find some nature. At least that is how I feel when I see them!) (After you look at her pics, you might want to click over here to see other little wilderness babies. And then you might go here to read about how a wilderness babies saved his dad's life when the boy was 12.)

And now, crawling out of the rabbit hole...

When I was reading on Ingunn's blog, I found this post talking about an album she made. This is one of the page-spreads she showcased.

Isn't it lovely? I can't take my eyes off that photo. The reflection is so calming. And while I don't have that same lovely photo, I did so want to make a page like that. So I did.

With its oodles of journaling space and its lovely symmetry and balance, there is no way this one could go wrong.

I hope you have fun scrolling through Ingunn's blog, and that you, too, will find some inspiration there. Thank you for stopping today! See you tomorrow for more scrapping fun!

December 07, 2014

January 11, 2014

I thought that with the crazy weather the US has been having I thought I´d share a fun photography trick for frozen days! It is actually a friend of mine, Susanna, that shared it on her blog a while ago! Here is what she said:

So what does happen to a bubble at -20C ?

First you have to carefully catch one... they are really fragile this cold..Mind you they are really pretty when they burst while you are catching one. They pop into a rain of iridescent shards of ice.

Then you'll notice it forming steam inside and out.

All of a sudden the freezing starts crystallizing it.

Then of course once it's frozen you have to stick it with your finger..

..so it'll "pop" ;)

Cool, isn't it?

Yes! Very cool I say! Now I am hoping for some really cold weather over here so I can try this out! Thank you Susanna for sharing!

July 14, 2012

It made me think about a flickr friend of mine that is an awesome macro and lego photographer, so I have asked her to tell us all abit more about shooting macro. Meet Kristina Alexanderson who is a project manager at .SE, the Swedish TLD. But she is also a photographer at heart that works with a Nikon 800 and loves working with motives like Star Wars toys.

From Kristina:

According to Wikipedia, macro photography is defined as extreme close-up photography, usually of very small subjects, in which the size of the subject in the photograph is greater than life size. [Though macro photography technically refers to the art of making very large photographs.]

When I hear macro photography I usually think of pictures of flowers or insects, and those are regular motives for macro-photography. And all my tips for the macro-photographer probably works for motives like flowers and insects as well, but the pictures I will share tips for making macro-photos with toys. Most of my macro-photography is about toys, and their secret life. I use Lego or plastic-toys as motives, often in backlight. I have done many photos connected to Star Wars characters. In my post I shall give some tips and examples of how I work and how I think when I compose and make a macro shot.

A tripod helps you with focus

There are several things that are challenging and fun to work with extreme close-ups. The depth of field and focus, especially if the item you are photographing is moving, like insects or outdoor flowers that moves in the wind. Even though I make still life if toys, I have a great help of a tripod. The tripod is an easy way to succeed with your extreme close-ups. There is a great risk that your pictures won’t be as focused as you like them to be without using a tripod. If you work with hand-held camera a tripod can be an easy way to get the shutter speed you need to get enough light on the motive. Another way is to work with flashes or work with a high ISO. When I work in natural light, I work both with and without tripod, but indoors in my “macro-studio” I always work with flashes, and a tripod.

Decide what you want to tell

My experience is that the best pics I make are the ones where I know what I want to tell. I believe that the success behind most great photos is that the photographer tells his/her audience a story. The key to macro-photo is to know what you want to tell. When you shoot, you have decided what you want to portray, which story do you want to tell. If you know what story you want to tell that insight will help you to make the right shot. To show what I mean I have taken series of pictures below as an example, to show how I can change my story by changing perspective and focus.

The first picture is a story of Darth walking toward a couple of Stormtrooper, with a teddy in his hand. But that wasn’t the story I wanted to tell. I want to tell a story about hiding, not Darth Vader, and his Teddy, so I change the focus and the perspective and the final picture became this one.

But to get the selective focus on the lego-trooper I used a tripod. The light wasn’t enough to make the shot with a handheld camera, I couldn’t hold the camera still long enough. It got blurry. Another example on how I use the tripod and the perspective to tell my story is this series of shots.

The first picture is taken from the front, it shows the whole scene. It tells my story about the small macro-photographer and the work he does. I try it in a “wide-angle” first and then go a bit closer.

To get that I slowly moved my tripod so that I stand behind the Lego man, and here I'll try my way, move at times. But I’m not sure about the perspective, it tells no ones history or both characters story, and I want to tell a selective story, the one of the photographer. The story of the devotee macro photographer must have for its object, and for his cause.

To get that I slowly moved my tripod so that I stand behind the Lego man, and here I'll try my way, move at times getting more behind the lego-toy. Trying to find the right angle, the way to tell the story I want to tell. In this case the story about the love for the motive that a macro-photographer needs to have. In this picture it’s the flowers.

I move and try until I come to a position that I think depicts what I want to portray. Then I'll try different focal points, different ways to tell the story. For example it could be a story about “adult” trooper and how proud he is. I consider both stories, by adding selectively focus on one or the other mini-figs. And finally I decide this is the way I want to tell my story.

Depth of field is an other important part of being able to portray different perspective to my stories. With short depth of field the background often becomes blurred and flow together. This helps me to emphasize details in the story I want to tell.

So in short my tips are

use a tripod to be able to get selective focus, where you want it

focus on getting the picture to tell the story you want to tell

try different perspectives, different focus points as part of your story

have fun

Thank you, Kristina! Wow! How cool was that! I like to use my macro lens from time to time and I have a lot of fun doing so. Even though I lean towards the more usual suspects to photograph such as flowers and insects.

photo by Francine

Once we get that great macro shot, how can we work it into a scrapbook page? Teka used her macro shot as a focal photo, making a big impact.

Deb used two macro shots to help her tell a story.

I have paired my two macro shots with one bigger photo, another way to tell a story. In this case it is the story about how rain can be beautiful if you see the details.

Write. click. scrapbook. friend, Allison Waken used her very own cool lego shot on her awesome layout!

May 11, 2012

I'm happy to say that we've received a wonderful response to this week of Social Media in Scrapbooking. I want to feature as many projects today as possible--- so let's cut the chit-chat and go straight to the eye candy!

Twitter

WCS member Diane Payne did a layout on the connections made through Twitter and Facebook:

Michelle Bazelay put together this clever layout, using tweets from the day Osama Bin Laden was killed:

Blogging:

WCS Team member Emily Spahn journals about blogging below:

More Facebook

First let me say that I discovered yesterday that the app I used to collect all my statuses is now defunct. I have not been able to find an alternative-- as Facebook keeps changing, a lot of possibilities I found on line no longer function. I guess we're stuck with doing it the old fashioned way for now. So sit back, put on Grey's Anatomy, and copy and paste!

Back to the eye candy....

Reader Mary Jo used a little hidden journaling card with a screenshot of status updates. This layout makes me think of daiquiris and toes in the sand...

Project Lifer, Stephanie Sheperd , added a screenshot of her Facebook status to highlight the birth of a new baby in the family:

Monica did something similar, taking a screen shot of FB conversations and formatting them onto a 4X6 card. So clever!

Reader Lisa P. gathered all of her Facebook statuses for an awesome Year in Review page:

And Lorimay Barba made this adorable mini with status updates. A very impressive copy of the logo, I'd say!

Thanks to everyone who contributed projects to my very social Social Media Week! We love it when you comment on what we're doing, and share your take on our weekly theme. Keep it up! You never know when you might see your project featured on WCS!

November 01, 2011

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a safe and happy Halloween. We certainly did, and today will be spent coming down from the excitement that is trick-or-treating. As I mentioned yesterday, I want to spend this week looking at various projects that challenge you to scrapbook your year. Whether the goal is to take a photo everyday, make one layout per month, or to scrapbook your everyday moments in a new way, there are various challenges and projects aimed at helping scrapbookers record their memories. We are going to explore some of those projects in detail this week, look at how scrapbookers take on these challenges, and see how in a lot of instances, it gives them a fresh perspective on their memory keeping. Let's get started!

Project 12

The first project I want to talk about this week is Project 12. It is monthly challenge that is hosted on the blog of Scrapbook & Cards Today in conjunction with the creator of the project, Davinie Fiero, and sketch artist, Becky Fleck. The project was started by Davinie as a way to document those little moments that often get left out of our scrapbooks. The idea is that over the course of one year, by creating just one layout per month, you'll complete an entire year-in-review album.

As for the challenge aspect of this project, Scrapbook & Cards Today provides a sketch for its readers to use each month of the project. If you want to be eligible for their monthly prize you can then submit your layout the following month (so for example, the layout for October would be due in November).

I asked two scrapbookers who participate in Project 12 to give us their input on the project.

First up is scrapbooker, Jennifer Larson. When I asked Jennifer what inspired her to participate in Project 12 Jennifer said, "I tend to scrap events and people, so I have a bunch of random pages in my albums. I'm OK with that, but I was drawn to the idea of taking a different perspective on my life, looking at the months as a whole instead."

She says is is easy to stay motivated from month-to-month because, "The sketches give me ideas for the pages, and when I use a kit for the layouts, the pages come together quite easily. You don't have to use the sketches, but I find them easier to use. I am motivated by the contest element to it, though I guess I could care less if I win a prize or not! In reality, I suppose I like the deadline the contest imposes. It keeps me going and I don't fall behind."

I also wanted to know whether she keeps her Project 12 layouts separate from her other layouts or whether she mixes them in with her current albums. She said, "As the year progresses, I keep them together in a pile (insert embarrassed face!). Once the year is done, I put the layouts in one album."

Jennifer added some further insight on the project adding that, "I am starting Project 12 with my life right now, but I've heard people say they are using Project 12 as a means to scrap old photos that they want to get into albums but they are otherwise to overwhelmed to start. Project 12 makes it easier to group photos in albums with fewer layouts. That's another way to to use this project to fit your needs."

I think the idea of using Project 12 to scrapbook older photos is a fantastic one. I know a lot of scrapbookers who do indeed feel overwhelmed, because as an example they started scrapbooking later in their children's lives, but they still want to go back and record those older memories. Committing to creating just one layout per month for those years past would certainly make the task more manageable.

Most of the layouts created in this project are two-page spreads. This is because the sketches provided for the challenge are two pages. It is not necessary to do two-page layouts in order to participate in this project. The concept is certainly adaptable to any size layout or album. Jennifer told me that she does like to use the sketches provided because they help save time. She sent along two of her favorite Project 12 layouts from this year. The first is from August of this year

This month's layout was very typical for her since she adapted the sketch to add more photos, something she does almost every month.

Her second layout is from May

Jennifer's mother-in-law passed away that month and so she took the opportunity to pair her May photos with thoughts about her passing.

Jennifer shares all of her Project 12 layouts as well as the details of her scrapbooking process on her blog. You can see more of Jennifer Larson's Project 12 layouts, here.

I asked another Project 12 participant, Shelly Jaquet, to share her perspective on the project as well. Again, I asked what inspired her to start this project. Here is what Shelly had to say:

"What really drew me into this project was the ability to record an entire month’s memories in one page. In 2009, I was doing Project 365. I loved it, and totally enjoyed being able to record life’s everyday moments with one simple picture a day. I realized how much I missed recording family memories. Since the birth of my daughter in 2006, I had only scrapbooked her memories for her own book; and then with the birth of my son in 2008, his memories for his book. After seeing Davinie’s Project 12 layouts each month at Scrapbook and Cards Today Blog, I decided it was time to go back and record those missed memories for myself, as a family album. I dabbled around, recording a month at a glance for 2006 and 2007. It was so easy to just pull a few pictures from the month together. Perfect for those memories, that weren’t strong in my mind anymore, but was able to record what I could all in one page.

In 2010, I still wanted to continue my Project 365, but I was really enjoying playing catch up with my past memories with Project 12. So, I decided to follow along month by month documenting my 2008 memories. It was just what I needed. At the end of the year, I had captured an entire year of lost memories. Perfect.

Come 2011, I still adored my Project 365. A picture a day just became second nature for me. I found that my photography skills were continuously being developed in a fresh new way. I was taking pictures that I never thought to take. My problem was that I still wanted to continue Project 12. I loved having that creative outlet of recording my monthly memories, but I was pretty much caught up on past years. So, I decided I would simple do both for the year. I still take a picture (or two or thirty) a day, but I chose to document the “extra” pictures on my Project 12 layouts. I belong to Studio Calico and each month my first page with my new kit is almost always my Project 12 layout. It is the perfect creative push I need to break into my new supplies."

Notice what Shelly said in her second paragraph, that initially she used Project 12 as a way to document older memories and photos. Shelly told me that she keeps her Project 12 layouts separate albums organized by year. Even once she had "caught up" on past years she decided to continue the project because, "These are pretty much the only layouts I do for my family albums. I may have a couple extra “event” layouts per album. Those layouts are slid in after the Project 12 layout for that particular month. I may go back at a later date, and do more event specific layouts for some months, but for now, I am happy to have a summary of most events. It feels good to not have the pressure of feeling like I didn’t record a certain event."

Here are three of Shelly's favorite Project 12 layouts, from September of 2008

May 2011

July 2011

I absolutely love Shelly's two-page spreads and I think she does an amazing job with the sketches provided each month. For more inspiration, you can find all of Shelly Jaquet's Project 12 layouts, here.

Project 365

The next project I want to explore is Project 365. The idea behind this project is simple, take one photo everyday for a year. Project 365 started off as a project aimed at photographers, but obviously has a large appeal to scrapbookers as well, since photography is a huge component of the memory-keeping process. This project is a great way to sharpen your skills and perspective as a photographer since the challenge forces you to get daily practice.

Paula Gilarde has taken part in Project 365, and as a scrapbooker she took those photos and turned them into a digital scrapbook. I asked her what inspired her to tackle the challenge of taking a photo everyday for a year and she said, "I'm a victim of peer pressure. There's been a lot of buzz around the internet for the past few years on project 365 so I wanted to try it."

Speaking for myself, I can imagine that keeping up this type of project can be difficult at times. When asked what kept her motivated to continue Paula answered, "I'm a started so I'll finish kind of gal."

Paula first did the project in 2008, then again in 2010. She finds that she gets burned out from doing the project so she only does it every other year. This year she is taking break from the challenge, but wants to tackle the project again next year. Her suggestion for keeping up with the challenge is to keep your camera with you at all times. She added that if she does in fact do the project next year she might try doing it using her iPhone therefore making it easier to have a camera with her without having to lug around a big SLR.

From the very beginning Paula planned to scrapbook her daily photos. Although she started the project with the intention to improve her photography skills, she still felt the need to do something with her photos. She added, "A layout per week gave me purpose with the project."

Here is the cover of Paula's photobookand a sample page

She used two different templates throughout the book, making one layout for each week.

I hope you've enjoyed this look at our first two projects that challenge you to scrapbook your year. Tomorrow we'll explore two more year-long scrapbooking projects. Before I leave though, I want to ask if you participate in either of the projects we've talked about today. What have you taken away from your experience? Do you have any tips of your own to share?

September 28, 2011

Now that we’ve talked about the benefit and process of creating layouts with meaningful journaling, let’s talk about how we design around that. You might be wondering how it is you will fit in all that journaling and how time consuming it may be. Just as getting in the habit and practicing of writing your journaling, it will also take practice of how it will fit best onto your page. This has definitely been a work in progress for me! But again, well worth it in the end when your story is finished.

Pick A Helpful Design

There are times I might have to cut down my journaling a bit. If it gets to the point that I have to cut so much out that it is no longer the story I want to tell then I go a different route of design. When I know it’s a story that is going to be longer than normal then I will usually design around the journaling instead of designing around the photo(s).

That’s what I did on this particular layout:

This was a page that I knew I would have a lot to say and picked a design that would allow me to do just that. I have made pages with the strip of patterned paper on it many times, but normally it’s filled with embellishments and photos. This time I typed out my journaling using a text box in Word, then printed it out on plain typing paper. After I laid everything out where I figured I wanted it I tweaked the journaling until it all fit, along with the photo and embellishments. To me, this was a story I didn’t want to cut down too much because it was important to tell in entirety.

Amy Sorenson did something similar on her layout as well. She had lots of journaling to include and designed around that, adding that adorable photo and her title work to it.

Nancy also had a lot to say regarding her bumpy summer. In order to get all of it to fit she created a soft, yet dramatic circle with stitched butterflies, then fit her journaling strips within the circle. I’m a huge fan of journaling strips and use them all the time. Nancy uses them on many of her layouts as well and I absolutely love them on here; and the entire story was still told. Journaling strips are a great way to still let yourself write freely. I normally leave an extra space between sentences, making it easier to cut the strips apart when printed.

Use a Fine Tip Pen

Raise your fine tip pen if you’re afraid of using your own writing on your pages…..Yep, I get nervous too and still prefer typed journaling, but Donna shows us a great way to incorporate your meaningful journaling on your layout with *gasp* your very own handwriting:

Here’s what Donna has to say about designing around journaling on her pages:

I set out to document a family tradition - our weekly visit to In-N-Out Burger. Typically, I use journaling strips on my layouts; they have just become a part of my process now. But sometimes I know that I will have a long story to tell and will need to include more journaling. As I'm creating my layout I keep this in mind and I try to plan ahead by leaving enough room for the story on my page. Sometimes I still revert to journaling strips but sometimes I know I will still need more space. In those cases, I use my handwriting and I also tend to use lined or grid paper in my design too. I do like a certain order in my pages and this is the easiest way to make sure that my journaling looks neat and legible.

Although I make light of using your handwriting, and while I still prefer computer generated journaling, I think it’s important to write your own from time to time. Your family will enjoy seeing your very own writing on a page and even compare their writing to yours!

Melissa Elsner reiterates this sentiment in her words about this layout:

Because I use scrapbooking for my creative journaling process, I approach it in a very similar way as a regular journal. I begin with a subject or topic. For this layout my focus was on a recent change with my job. I write everything out on some paper. I don't pay attention to grammar or punctuation. It's basically a "spew fest" as I like to call it. After getting it all out, I go back and reread. Then, I grab photos and papers and such that I feel will compliment what my journaling is about.

I tend to hand-write my journaling as well. I overcame my fear of using my own writing was realizing these pages are for me. And I asked myself the question, "If these were pages created by my grandma, would I want to see her own handwriting?" And the answer was "YES!" There's something special and personal about recording YOUR voice in YOUR handwriting.

I always like the way Stacey always uses her handwriting too. Many times she draws lines and journals on those lines, ensuring that everything is straight and orderly:

Hidden Pockets

Another way I like to add my meaningful journaling to my pages is through a pocket, or hidden journaling. Sometimes I use this because I have several photos and not enough room for all of it, and other times I use it because the journaling is not something I want shared with all of the world wide web! I used a pocket for this layout because there were several photos I wanted to use and also because it’s personal journaling about my daughter’s struggles and while she may not care now, she may not be so happy with me later in life!

Journal the Edges

One other “trick” I like to use to spice things up or make room for journaling is to journal around my layout, as in this one:

It is deceiving though when doing this because the first time I wrote my journaling this way I thought I would have tons of space to write and it turns out that space gets taken up very quickly by the 3rd side! However, it allows more space in the center for photos and embellishments. I use this method when I have a shorter amount of journaling I want to include.

Hopefully this helps give you some starting points on how you can design your layout in order to fit in your meaningful journaling. As you can see it doesn't have to be paragraphs upon paragraphs of journaling, although it can be, but as long as it is the story you want to tell then short or long is great! Do you have some tricks you use to fit your journaling on your layouts?